Digital Media Recovery

Gone are the days when you needed to lug around tons of film rolls to ensure that your career does not start going downhill! And gone are the days when you needed to keep all those developed photos in albums which not only took up a lot of space, but also got damaged after a while!

Technology has touched one of the most vulnerable parts of our lives-our memories. All those amazing pictures can now be stored in the palm of your hand-quite literally! Digital storage devices that are small, compact and use non-volatile memory have made this possible.

Flash Memory is a non-volatile storage memory where data of various kinds can be stored. It is most commonly used in Memory Cards and USB storage devices. There are a number of different types of media storage devices.

A memory stick, most commonly refers to the Sony Memory Stick which is a portable digital storage device. USB Flash drives are memory storage devices using Flash memory. These are generally used for storing photos, pictures, projects and various other kinds of information.

Memory cards also use the same Flash memory as the above mentioned devices. Secure Digital (SD) Cards and CompactFlash (CF) Cards are high capacity storage cards. These cards are vastly used in various cameras and mobile phones. The SD card was developed by SanDisk, Toshiba and Matsushita while the CF cards was originally made by SanDisk. There are two types of CF cards; Type I is 3.3 mm thick while Type II is 5mm thick. Hitachi/IBM Micro Drive is a CompactFlash Type II storage device. eXtreme Digital (XD) Cards were created by Toshiba Corportation and Samsung Electronics for Olympus and Fujifilm. Today many companies such as Kodak, Lexar, PNY, SanDisk, etc., make XD Cards. MultiMediaCard (MMC) are storage devices using Flash Memory. It was launched by Siemens AG and SanDisk. They are used in digital audio players, cameras, cell phones, PDAs, etc.

Disks are another form of digital storage device. The most popular disks in recent times are the Zip Disks and Mini Disks. The Floppy Diskette used in the 1990s has now become obsolete. The Zip Disk is a disk storage device launched by Iomega. MiniDiscs are mostly used for storing audio files. Even today, CDs and DVDs are extremelly popular for storing data and other information.

Card data can become inaccessible due to various reasons :

• Accidental formatting of the memory card being used.
• Accidentally deleting pictures and other files stored thereon .
• Improper shut-down of the device that the storage device is inserted into.
• Overwriting of the card due to some reason.
• The file system of the device is damaged.
• Any other logical errors faced by the card when it is inserted into another device.
• Read-write errors.

Like they say, where there is a will there is a way!

Use Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery Software and perform Digital Media Recovery for all the data that was lost. No matter which Digital Storage Device the data was stored on, this tool can recover it for you.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a user-friendly tool that runs on both Windows and Mac OS. The tool performs safe Digital Media Recovery.